Allan Miller posted:Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:. . . I called my coworker who is staying at home(she's 70), we talked about when polio was around. I myself never had to experience anything like that, and she said that wasn't as bad as this stuff is.I was a young boy during the polio crisis in the early 50s and was part of the trial group of youngsters given the initial round of Salk vaccine. It was a scary time indeed, even though I was really too young at the time to fully understand what was going on. But I can tell you that NOTHING in my long lifetime compares even remotely to what we are going through now (and I have gone through a lot over those many years).
We will get through this as long as people cooperate to the best of their ability to bring things under control. Some brilliant minds are working on developing a cure and/or treatments, and I am confident they will be successful.
I remember getting the Salk Vaccine in about 1961. Unfortunately we had 2 boys who had contracted polio in my high school class of 190 students. One who used crutches in grade school, was confined to a wheelchair in high school, and passed on shortly afterwards. The other passed on a few years ago of a heart attack. Seeing that boy stand with his crutches while we ran at recess and later helping carry him or his wheelchair up and down the stairs in high school is as close as I got to polio. I have never seen anything like this at all. We go to the store only when absolutely necessary and deliver food to my mother-in-law who has stayed in since the start. That's it.
